Inlead

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A conduit, channel or wire leading into a container or device.

    "a cathode inlead"

Verb
  1. 1
    To lead into; conduct. transitive

    "Helge Lundholm new afferent or inleading processes might be set up tending, themselves, towards the mathematical point of interaction"

  2. 2
    To lead from within.

    "Emanuel Swedenborg When man is in the former state, the Lord inflows and inleads immediately"

Example

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"Helge Lundholm new afferent or inleading processes might be set up tending, themselves, towards the mathematical point of interaction"

Etymology

From Middle English inleden (“to lead or bring in, introduce”), from Old English inlǣdan (“to lead in, bring in, introduce, conduct”), equivalent to in- + lead. Cognate with Dutch inleiden (“to initiate; introduce”), German einleiten (“to initiate; introduce”), Danish indlede (“to introduce”), Swedish inleda (“to introduce”).

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